Power, Sir D'Arcy (1855-1941)

  • Power, Sir D'Arcy, 1855-1941
Date:
1890-1940
Reference:
MSS.3961-3963 and 7440
  • Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

About this work

Description

Material on medical history (particularly on syphilis) and the history of the Power and Simpson families; correspondence.

Publication/Creation

1890-1940

Physical description

3 volumes and 1 file

Contributors

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's 10/6/1941, Lot 312 (part).

Biographical note

The author was surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and a distinguished medical historian. See the Dictionary of National Biography.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection: MSS.627-628 comprise material relating to the Barber-Surgeons' Company, London, compiled by Sir D'Arcy Power.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Ownership note

From the author's library, with his armorial book-plate.

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Identifiers

Accession number

  • 92338